It is significant that Oscar Wilde's bondsmen, in heavy amounts, are the heir to the Queensberry estates and a clergyman. Most people will echo Robert Buchanan's hope that the gifted young man will be found innocent of the charges alleged. Those people who made up their minds that he was guilty, without a little of evidence being produced, must see the folly of condemning a prisoner before a fair chance has been afforded him to clear himself. Popular clamor is seldom to be relied upon in cases of this kind. Humanity seems desirous to believe the worst

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